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Who is Tinfoil?

Tinfoil is a team of people always striving to learn something new every day.
We strive for diversity and inclusion, while providing the best service possible.
We work in many different domains in a highly collaborative environment.

At Tinfoil Security we're working to make the internet a more secure place.
We write tools that are used to secure the largest web applications and APIs in the world.
If you've ever watched a video or streamed music online, your data has probably been secured by code we've written.
To date, our software has found and fixed over two million security vulnerabilities in the web.

We provide companies of all sizes with security tools that can be used by their developers and DevOps teams.
Security is traditionally marketed using fear, but that's not the approach we want to take.
We want world-class security to be accessible and teachable to anyone.
That means building clean, consistent interfaces, and distilling our reports down to just the most actionable pieces.
Our goal is to reduce the time it takes to find and fix vulnerabilities and make it a part of the software building process.

We hook security into CI and testing frameworks and have security tests
run alongside unit, regression, and integration tests. Using the same
techniques as malicious hackers, we systematically test all the access points.
As we find vulnerabilities we’ll stick them right back in front of developers,
either in a simple checklist format or by integrating into their issue tracker
of choice, instantly notifying developers when there's a threat and giving
step-by-step instructions, tailored to their software stack, to eliminate it.

We’re not limited by technologies or software stacks. Be it a website or API
driven mobile app or IoT device, we can secure it. Our customers have a lot
to manage; we help manage their security.

Tinfoil Benefits

At Tinfoil, we strive for diversity and inclusion, which means providing
unique benefits to encourage many different lifestyles. A high-level overview of
things we provide our full-time employees are outlined below:

Healthcare — We offer medical, dental, and vision for
employees and dependents.

Fitness Reimbursement — As long as you're exercising, we'll
reimburse you for your gym, dance, MMA, or other fitness memberships!

Family planning assistance (being implemented) — We believe
in helping all of our employees to have peace of mind in creating a life they
want. We’re implementing a system to financially assist with family planning,
including IVF, egg freezing, adoption, and anything else we might be missing!

Education assistance (being implemented) — Some of the best
security minds of our time haven’t graduated high school, let alone college.
If you’re in this group and are hoping to get a degree, or have a degree and
are interested in furthering your education, we have a program to assist!

Charity Match Program — We believe in making sure we support
our community, embodying one of our Tinfoil values. As such, we’ll match up
to $1,000 in charitable donations made by an employee.

Vacations & Holidays

Policy — Full-time employees follow an unlimited vacation
policy. We believe that you should be able to travel and open your mind,
no matter your tenure at Tinfoil.

Holidays — Tinfoil typically celebrates ~1 holiday per month.
Feel free to be in the office on those days, but don’t expect anybody else to
be! Holidays include some of the standard government days, but may also
include more unique holidays like Pi Day!

Special Holidays — The best way to avoid burnout (common
in a startup) is to do something out of the norm. To encourage this, we
will reimburse up to a certain amount for some of the holidays we take off
(4-5 holidays/year) for you to do something unique. Tinfoilers have spent
this on kayaking, hiking, team outings, flights to Vegas... The world is
your oyster!

Traveling with Tinfoil

Retreats & Workaways — We do a retreat (1 long weekend)
in the winter and a work away (1 full week) in the summer. Retreats are typically
within a 2-3 hour drive of the Bay Area, where we’ll all head out as a team for a
long weekend for some fun! Work away is a week long trip, where we’ll typically fly
away from the Bay Area and spend a week working on unique projects with focus we
wouldn’t be able to get otherwise. The week is speckled with fun events like lobster
nights, island trips, and escape the room games!

Company Anniversary — Our belief is that all small successes
should be celebrated. Making another trip around the sun is a success! On or around
June 24th each year, we go out as a team and do something exciting. We've learned
to windsurf, gone to Santa Cruz, rafted the white waters of the American River,
etc... it's always a blast.

The Tinfoil Office

Our office is located in
Mountain View, CA.
There’s plenty of parking available, and we're near the Caltrain (10-15 minute walk
from the San Antonio stop) and bus stops. We’re often stocked with snacks and are close
to many great taquerias!

Current Openings

Software Engineer

You will work with everything from distributed systems to static analysis to information architecture.
We value speed, but we value stability and an approachable user experience more.
Our software stack is primarily Elixir, Ruby, and Go, but we're advocates of choosing the best tool for the job.
If something like Elm is going to help you solve a problem more effectively then we want to provide you a place to convince us of that and keep our software moving forward.

Qualifications

A drive to learn and push your limits

An interest in security and an appreciation for privacy

Passion. We don't care in what, but we want you to make us excited about something you care about

A pride in your work. We treat our work as a craft, and aren't done with a new feature until we're proud of it

Bonus Points:

Ruby or Ruby on Rails

Elixir or Erlang

Javascript, Coffeescript

Knockout.js, AngularJS, React

Web Vulnerabilities (XSS, SQLi, CSRF, etc)

Cryptography

DevOps and the CI/CD process

Docker, CoreOS, and Kubernetes

You've built and launched a project from start to finish

An interest in CTF (Capture the Flag). We help run the Samurai CTF team, and we've won at DEFCON!

Senior Front-end Engineer

You will be responsible for leading our front-end efforts, using cutting-edge technology and design methodologies.
You will take charge of defining and implementing our design system, and will be trusted to put that design system into practice by building new interfaces and revolutionizing our old ones.

Qualifications

Javascript (or Typescript, etc!)

You've built and launched a project from start to finish

A drive to learn and push your limits

An interest in security and an appreciation for privacy

Passion. We don't care about what, but we want you to make us excited about something you care about

A pride in your work. We treat our work as a craft and aren't done with a new feature until we're proud of it

Bonus Points:

React or Vue

Redux or MobX State Tree

CSS, SASS, Less, Stylus

Design Systems and Pattern Libraries

Atomic Design

Ruby or Ruby on Rails

Elixir or Erlang

Elm

An interest in CTF (Capture the Flag). We help run the Samurai CTF team, and we've won at DEFCON!

Account Executive and Relationship Builder

We believe in creating deep relationships with each of our customers.
Our account executives are the first team members to interact with the
outside world, and a good collaborative mindset is needed to take on
this challenge.

You'll be trained directly under our founders in our unique approach
to sales and relationship building. The approach we take is a complete
collaboration between yourself and the rest of the team. If you have a
proven track record in sales or technical sales, but didn't like the
standard cutthroat sales culture, Tinfoil may be the right spot for you!
You’ll interact directly with executives from companies both large and small.
We have Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and the smallest of startups
as our customers. Each of them is important to our team.

Qualifications

A fast learner, who can build a boat out of twigs, sand, and honey

A drive to learn and push your limits

An interest in customer success

An interest in building strong relationships

An interest in security and an appreciation for privacy

Passion. We don't care in what, but we want you to make us excited about something you care about

A pride in your work. We treat our work as a craft, and aren't done with a new feature until we're proud of it

Bonus Points:

Experience in:

Engineering

Sales (of any kind!)

Sales and CRM tools

Sourcing leads and bringing them through the full sales process, through to invoice

Exposure to security and engineering concepts like:

Web Vulnerabilities (XSS, SQLi, CSRF, etc)

DevOps and the CI/CD process

Front-end Software Development

Web Design

Pitch us on a position

Think we need a position you can fill? Pitch us on what it is! We’re always looking
to bring smart and exciting people into the fold. Though we may not have the bandwidth
to jump on the opportunity immediately, we’re happy to chat about something interesting
for now or the future 😃.